Ethan HekkerCultural Capitalism — How Corporations Exploit Your GuiltIt’s perfectly natural to feel sympathetic, even if the circumstances causing your sympathy aren’t under your control. You sympathize with…4 min read·Jul 31, 2020----
Ethan HekkerA Pandemic and Neo-Conservative Capitalism are Killing the Working ClassDisasters cause loyalists. People look to our leaders for help, and — whether they receive it or not — are easily swayed into looking…4 min read·Apr 10, 2020----
Ethan HekkerSimone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ethics“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there…6 min read·Mar 9, 2020----
Ethan HekkerJean-Paul Sartre, Bad Faith, and “Who am I?”“Let us consider the waiter in the cafe. His movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid. He comes towards the…5 min read·Feb 23, 2020----
Ethan HekkerThe Power of Eye ContactHave you ever been sitting in some public place — say, a cafe or subway — and you glance up and see somebody really attractive? Attractive…4 min read·Jan 5, 2020----
Ethan HekkerDrool Audrey Only Gets Weirder From HereWith the rise of Internet rap in the mid-2000s follows a new sound — one that aims to twist as many rules of contemporary rap music as…4 min read·Dec 30, 2019----
Ethan HekkerHow Radiohead’s “Kid A” Predicted The FutureKid A was born out of frustration.4 min read·Nov 26, 2019----
Ethan HekkerSeizing the Means of ProductionWhat can we expect from John Means moving forward, and how should the Baltimore Orioles adjust their plans?3 min read·Nov 8, 2019----
Ethan HekkerA Conversation with Music Photographer Niko MenicouNiko Menicou is a music photographer from the Bay Area.8 min read·Sep 24, 2019----
Ethan HekkerIt’s Time to Take Your Kids out of FootballWe’ve learned over the past few years of the long-term effects that come from repeated blows to the head, most notably from a study by Dr…3 min read·Sep 2, 2019--1--1